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Table 2 Hospital characteristics by cause of death for women from the 1921–1926 cohort

From: End of life hospitalisations differ for older Australian women according to death trajectory: a longitudinal data linkage study

 

Other N (%)

Cancer N (%)

Organ Failure N (%)

Dementia/Alzheimer’s N (%)

Diabetes N (%)

Influenza/Pneumonia N (%)

p-value

Death in hospital

 Yes

138 (49.5)

223 (59.4)

162 (59.2)

44 (29.5)

37 (44.9)

28 (55.5)

<0.0001

 No

81 (27.6)

123 (31.0)

84 (32.4)

67 (51.8)

32 (37.9)

13 (25.3)

 Unknowna

64 (22.9)

36 (9.6)

24 (8.4)

27 (18.7)

12 (17.2)

10 (19.2)

 Independent livingb

92 (33.3)

121 (32.1)

85 (31.6)

44 (32.1)

29 (36.3)

19 (38.0)

0.928

Days from last admission to death

  < 1 week

95 (34.7)

132 (32.3)

102 (34.5)

27 (19.5)

24 (31.5)

21 (39.5)

<0.0001

  ≥1 week <1 month

67 (22.2)

113 (29.3)

79 (28.7)

42 (32.1)

20 (32.1)

14 (31.9)

  ≥ 1 month <3 months

31 (11.5)

63 (19.3)

24 (10.7)

19 (14.6)

11 (11.1)

2 (2.2)

  ≥ 3 months < 1 year

26 (8.7)

38 (9.5)

41 (17.7)

23 (15.1)

14 (18.4)

4 (7.1)

 No admissions

64 (22.9)

36 (9.6)

24 (8.4)

27 (18.7)

12 (17.2)

10 (19.2)

Hospital stay

 No hospitalisation

10 (19.6)

36 (9.4)f

24 (8.9)f

27 (19.6)

12 (14.8)

64 (22.6)f

<0.001

  cAcute

10 (19.6)

58 (15.2)

51 (18.9)

30 (21.7)

18 (22.2)

56 (19.8)

  dMedium

9 (17.7)

80 (20.9)

62 (23.0)

33 (23.9)

14 (17.3)

50 (17.7)

  ePalliative

22 (43.1)

208 (54.5)

133 (49.3)

48 (34.8)

37 (45.7)

113 (39.9)

  1. anot hospitalised
  2. bmeasured from the ALSWH survey closest to death
  3. can acute LOS was defined as >0 and ≤5.8 days
  4. da medium LOS was defined as >5.8 and ≤11.9 days
  5. ea palliative LOS was defined as >11.9 days
  6. fGreatest cell contribution to the χ 2-test